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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Hans G. Dehmelt

Title:

Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

University of Washington

Seattle,Washington  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2017

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1995

Citation:

"For his pioneering achievements in perfecting elecromagnetic traps for precision studies of single ions, electrons, and positrons, culminating in the measurement to unprecedented accuracy of the magnetism of the free electron and positron."

Awarded by President Clinton at a White House ceremony on October 18, 1995.

Nobel Laureate:

Physics, 1989

 

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